01/13/2026
I am a proud musical theater Mom for 3 years now.
And I see two trends:
1. Ego Musical Theater
2. Pure Joy + Passion Musical Theater
We partake in the latter proudly, through a lovely local theater.
In fact, in EVERY area of our life, we desire NOT being perfect over feigned perfection. Anything infected with a perfection expectation is fake and to that, we say a big hell no to it.
We don’t look for perfection in our daughter and we certainly don’t want her in the inauthentic hands of a theater director/owner with the oh so very contagious “perfection infection”.
Expectation of perfection in children is abusive. So if you support it- I wish you the best in the end results of that pressure on your child. No child thrives in unrealistic expectations. And anything in the perfection zone is unrealistic.
I prefer to watch my child exist in JOY on that stage- not under a scrutinizing microscope that is pointing out every imperfection of her performance… or for that matter, her cast mates’ performances.
These are children- doing their best while fostering their passion for acting and singing. Nothing more.
It is sad that most adults cannot see this. Likely because they live their life vicariously through their child.
I’m over the perfection infection.
Keep that s**t to yourself.
